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Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Policy
February 2026 Jennifer L. Pomeranz, Erika Hanson, Dariush Mozaffarian,
The United States is an outlier worldwide in its permissive regulatory landscape for direct-to-consumer (DTC) prescription drug promotion. Recent proposals to restrict DTC prescription drug advertising raise questions about potential challenges under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution which protects commercial speech. More
Commercial Determinants of Health Population Health
February 2026 Ashley N. Gearhardt, Kelly D. Brownell, Allan M. Brandt,
Context: Ultraprocessed foods (UPFs) now dominate the global food supply and are strongly associated with risks for heart disease, cancers, metabolic… More
February 2026
Regulators should look to tobacco control for policies to manage ultra-processed food’s impact on health February 3, 2026—As the federal… More
Health IT Rural Health
January 2026 Pedram Fard, Hossein Estiri,
The December 2025 Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence has generated familiar responses from familiar quarters. Legal scholars debate federal… More
Health Equity Population Health
January 2026 Sara Rosenbaum,
The implications of the Department of Justice’s action to eliminate the “disparate impact” test, which provides the legal foundation for removing discriminatory barriers in public health and health care. More
Rural Health
January 2026 Daniel Baslock, Nari Yoo,
Context: Inadequate descriptions of rurality limit comparisons across rural areas and can lead to overgeneralizations in health policy research.… More
Health Insurance Population Health
December 2025 Heidi L. Allen, Scarlett Wang,
Political analysts have argued that inflation and concerns about the economy were driving factors in the 2024 presidential election. As costs for… More
Mental Health Social drivers of health
December 2025 Guangyi Wang, Daniel F. Collin, Deborah Karasek, Rita Hamad,
https://youtu.be/SYuXw_GfDUU Context: In July 2021, to alleviate material hardship, Congress temporarily expanded the Child Tax Credit (CTC),… More
Population Health Public Health
December 2025 Alan B. Cohen,
With each passing day, the United States federal government introduces yet another policy that threatens, rather than promotes, the health and… More
Mental Health Population Health
December 2025 Abdinasir K. Ali, Emily C. Dore, Rita Hamad,
In 2021, Congress expanded the earned income tax credit (EITC)—the largest US poverty alleviation program—to young adults without children who had previously been ineligible. More
